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JWeinCom on 16 April 2016
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mountaindewslave said:
DevilRising said:
Iron Man 2 was dull, and 3 was just bad. Thor 2 wasn't bad, but what they did with the Dark Elves, making them space aliens with ships and lasers, was just stupid, and the movie itself overall was "meh". Even Avengers 2, after the first one being so good, was kind of a mess, and they made Ultron a very uncompelling villain, which was sad.

So basically I'm banking off the fact that Cap 2 was REALLY good, arguably the best Marvel Universe movie yet, and that these directors know what they're doing, and using that to hold out optimism that they'll also make Cap 3 good. Or perhaps that they'll even get Avengers back on track and both parts of 3 (Hollywood these days lol), will also be good again.

But yes, short version: I am allowing myself to be at least mildly hyped for this, and I hope that it doesn't disappoint.

Avengers 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 3- were all terrible and have strangely highly ratings on RottenTomatoes. They aren't good films objectively in terms of pacing and plot.

The first Avengers, Captain American movies, Iron Man 1, Guardians of the Galaxy- those all are fairly good in terms of pacing and structure

 

if Civil War is anything like Iron Man 3 or Avengers 2 and gets a rating like theirs I would hold your breath, some Marvel movies seem to get ...erhm... strangely high ratings...

for example Iron Man 3 is probably one of the worst superhero movies of all time. The plot is extremely shaky, almost nothing happens (Iron man walks around a lot?), and the twist is awful and ruins something great from the comics. Yet that has almost an 80% positive critical rating on RT. Its just bizarre

 

200M opening weekend is extremely hopeful though

Age of Ultron hit 190 million domestically.  Captain America did 95 million.  So, it depends if the audience sees this as more of an Avengers movie or a Captain America.  They're promoting this one about as heavily as they did AOU from as far as I can tell, and it also has Spider-man and junk.  200 million is far from a given, but it's not all that unrealistic.